Participant Info

Species

Erythranthe guttata [Mimulus guttatus] [Mimulus puberulus]

Family

Phrymaceae

CommonName

seep monkeyflower, common monkeyflower

Presence

YES

Status

native

EarliestDate

1998

LatestDate

2020

Ecosystem

aquatic, foothill, montane, subalpine

Geobotanical

SSawatch, Garitas, SSanjuans, Culebras, NCristos

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta, San Juan

Passes

Cumbres, Elwood, Grayback, Music, Stony, Wolf Creek

WildlifePreserves

Big Meadows Reservoir, Great Sand Dunes, La Jara

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Conejos Co, top of Trujillo Reservoir 3 Aug 2020

Comments

Erythranthe guttata is by far the most common monkeyflower in the Watershed, growing in very wet habitats, sometime in water, from foothill to subalpine. It is not found in the Basin or tundra. In the USA it is present in practically every county west of the Great Plains, and follows the Rio Grande Drainage to the border with Mexico. Note that the former genus Mimulus has been revised to assign all Watershed flowers previously treated as Mimulus into the genus Erythranthe (Barker et al. 2012).

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